Cuckfield Connections

Sir Watkin William Wynne's regiment of militia, intended for Brighton Camp, have been stopped at Cuckfield, owing, it is said, to a...

Mid Sussex Times -Tuesday December 14 1915 CHEERY LETTER FROM CORPORAL M ANSCOMBE. Writing to his parents at Cuckfield, Corporal M...

Cuckfield Rural Parish Council and present difficulties. Several topical questions came up for discussion at the Meeting of the Cuckfield...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 18 August 1914 CUCKFIELD AND THE WAR. A RELIEF FUND STARTED A GENEROUS RESPONSE. £280 RAISED IN ONE EVENING...

Aberdeen Press and Journal - Saturday 01 September 1928 40,000 AT WAR. British Army Ready for Mimic Battle. (From a Special...

Four hundred tree guards, each one six feet high and live feet in circumference was an unusual gift to a Ministry of Works scrap metal...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 27 April 1915 WAR MEDALS. INTERESTING LECTURE AT CUCKFIELD. The men of the Post Office Rifles who are billeted...

Sir Douglas Claude Strathern Evill Buried in Cuckfield churchyard is a senior officer of the RAF who had an interesting life during...

Have Sussex people sleepy minds ? I ask the question because not a third of them seem to have properly awakened to the fact that they...

The pleasant war in the Sussex manoeuvres area, in which the combatants are being killed or wounded by word of mouth, went forward at a...

Cuckfield Rural District Council, Burgess Hill Urban District Council Fuel and Lighting Order, 1939 In pursuance of paragraph 5a of the...

Air Raid Precautions Committee Mr German presided over a meeting of this Committee on November 7th. Shelters for school-children...

November 1940 For several years I thought I would like to join the Navy – an ambition fuelled by a school friend whose father had been...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 06 July 1915 A POST OFFICE RIFLEMAN, writing from France to a friend in Cuckfield, says the battalion has seen...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 06 July 1915 FROM “SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE” Rifleman Frank Rowland, of the 4th Battalion Rifle Brigade, son of Mr....

Mid Sussex Times - Wednesday 01 November 1944 D.F.C. FOR F/O COBB. COURAGE OF A CUCKFIELD MAN Twenty-two year old Flying Officer Henry...

On Thursday evening a drill of tbe 'A' and 'B' (Cuckfield) Companies of Volunteers of the 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment took place...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 09 March 1915 THE CHURCH SCHOOLS. —A temporary Roll of Honour sheet has been bought by the boys of the above...

I was browsing through the web pages of Barry Ray’s excellent Slaugham Archive website and I came across the page on Chownes Mead which...

Chownes Mead, Cuckfield, for a time, was the home of Lord Woolton, the man credited with ‘keeping the nation fed’ throughout World War...